The Canadian Private Copying Collective, which consists of composers, recording artists and record labels, is once again bringing a tax to the forefront that will raise the price of your iPod north of the United States border.
The debate is centered around artists beind properly compensated for the copying of their files onto an iPod.
David Basskin, who is on the Collective’s Board of Directors, says it shouldn’t be too difficult to have this tax passed by Parliament.
“When parliament passed the law in 1997, they could have attached a shopping list of media but they chose not to do that. They chose to let the law flex with the technology because there were none in 1997,” he said. “What the court hasn’t dealt with yet is the status of an iPod (as a whole).”
If passed, the tax could raise the price of an iPod by $75.
2 comments:
Don't think it'll happen. But yeah, it's pathetic. The Canadian recording industry exists because federal law forces Canadian broadcast stations to play Canadian content as a condition of license. It's why they know how to grub for money they haven't earned, but not to produce a product that can succeed on it's own terms. If you think they're pathetic, you should see the Canadian film and television industry.
But it's pointless. We'd never pay it, we'd just buy our mp3 players in the States.
Considering I've never put a single song on my iPod that'd be a bad deal for me.
But on the other hand, using their logic... I think we should propose a tax on all the people who don't listen to podcasts! After all, podcasters aren't being properly compensated, with their fair share of audience (all those people who aren't downloading podcasts onto their iPods). ;)
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